Palestine In The Bronze And Iron Ages PDF Download

The study of ceramics is one of the most important topics to understand the Bronze and Iron ages in Palestine, combined with settlement patterns, which both have helped and will help draw a chapter in the history of the region. To this end, the decision to study the pottery of tomb 1 at Tell Dothan was made to contribute to the debate over the archaeology of Canaan during the Late Bronze and the Iron Ages, Tell Dothan provides a very important and unique pottery collection which spans throughout the later phase of the Late Bronze and the beginning of the Iron Age with clear evidence of continuity of the pottery pattern, in addition to that, the Late Bronze Age in the highlands is a period believed to be poor and with very few sites, which requires investigating this assumption, for this reason, the study was conducted to examine the continuity in the pottery in the Late Bronze Age with its collapse as well as during the dawn of the subsequent Age. Studying the pottery of Tell Dothan will contribute to the understanding of two histro-archaeological issues; the Tell Dothan tomb 1 unique pottery collection and on the other hand, the Late Bronze, Iron age and the transition in the highlands as well as, the region Canaan in general. Throughout this study, I try to join archaeology and/ with a historical reflection.